…the locked-down multitudes spent some of their furlough money on scarce imports, prices began to rise. Corporations with great paper wealth responded by exploiting their immense market power (yielded by…
…prices are up 7.8% YoY, and have stopped decelerating in the past several months: The one silver lining here is that used vehicle prices have not risen at all since…
…gas and oil prices. As indicated in the title, there’s good news and bad news. I’ll start with the bad news first. According to GasBuddy, gas prices have not declined…
…chasing a phantom lagging menace. “Actual* rents and house prices lead the CPI measures by about a year.” In our neck of the woods, home prices are dropping, sales are…
Existing home sales and prices decline further, BUT . . . – by New Deal democrat Even though existing home sales make up about 90% of the total market, they…
…on new home sales and prices, and existing home prices this morning, there’s some very important news on mortgage rates. Namely, at 7.51%, mortgage rates are the highest they have…
…costs by charging customers fixed and variable prices. Utilities that are trying to green themselves and/or accomplish social goals need to make additional capital investments (transitional costs) that need to…
…services are up 9.1%: The story here is that repair parts cost more than they did before vehicle prices shot up, so insurance prices have had to increase sharply as…
…markets and pain at the gasoline pump for Americans and consumers globally. Oil prices quadrupled nearly overnight and remained high for over a decade. Producing countries leveraged the opportunity to…
…Biden administration has been slowly replenishing stocks in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) as oil prices fell in the fourth quarter, buying crude at prices that could rate the president…